Artists
A musician with a passion for chamber music and art song, she has performed in venues and festivals including the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Teatro Real, the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music, the Oxford Lieder Festival or the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She has partnered with artists including Wolfgang Holzmair, Tara Erraught, Michael Spyres or Elena Copons, and has performed as soloist with numerous ensembles. Born in Massachusetts, Deirdre earned a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College with a double major in Engineering Sciences and Music, and Master's degrees from both the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Konservatorium Wien (MUK). She is currently teaching at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz and the Joseph Haydn Konservatorium in Eisenstadt. She is co-founder and director of the Boyne Music Festival in Ireland as well as the innovative concert series Mosaïque in Vienna.
Born in Flensburg (Germany,) she was a member of the Ensemble at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, where in 2017, having sung over 20 roles at the theatre, she was awarded the title of Kammersängerin. She has been a frequent guest at the Salzburg Festival and the Wiener Staatsoper. She has also appeared at La Monnaie, the Opéra Bastille, the Royal Opera House and the Teatro alla Scala. Recent role debuts include Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) at the Semperoper Dresden and Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Edinburgh International Festival. She is a renowned recitalist and her recent appearances include the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Het Concertgebouw, the Wiener Konzerthaus and concert halls in Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne and Brussels, and at the Munich and Schwarzenberg Festivals. She has also appeared frequently in concerts in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
La soprano terrassenca es forma amb Dolors Aldea i a Viena, on finalitza els estudis cum laude. El 2007 guanya el 2n premi en el Concurs Internacional de Lied de Stuttgart. Com a reconeguda liederista, ha ofert nombrosos recitals a sales com el Musikverein, la Radiokulturhaus, l’Arnold Schoenberg Center i la Bösendorfersaal de Viena, la Liederhalle de Stuttgart, el Palau de la Música Catalana i l'Auditori de Barcelona, el Kingsplace de Londres i el Holywell d'Oxford. Ha cantat també a festivals com el LIFE Victoria Barcelona i la Schubertíada i ha participat en els prestigiosos cicles monogràfics "The Schubert Project" al Regne Unit i "Der Ganze-Hugo-Wolf" a Alemanya. És una cantant versàtil i amb un ampli repertori de concert, que és present amb regularitat, des de fa més d’una dècada, a les temporades del Gran Teatre del Liceu i del Teatro Real, on ha estrenat diverses òperes.
Èlia Farreras-Cabero, born in 1999, studied with Elisenda Cabero at the Escola de Música i Conservatori Professional de Sabadell. She is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Britta Schwarz. She complements her studies with great specialists, including Wolfram Rieger, Martin Bruns, Christoph Prégardien, Thomas Quasthoff, Lluís Vilamajor or Ulrich Messthale. She has performed in such emblematic halls as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Palau de la Música Catalana, L'Atlantida in Vic or La Farándula in Sabadell.
Elionor Martínez Lara (Barcelona, 1996) completed her higher education studies at the Conservatori del Liceu, with a scholarship from the Ferrer-Salat Foundation. She later won the 2016 Salvat Bach Scholarship, awarded by the Bach Foundation Zum Mitsingen Barcelona. In 2019, she won four special prizes at the Josep Palet Singing Competition in Martorell, and in 2024, she participated in the Schubertiad's "Lied the Future" program. She has been selected as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2026-27 season. She earned a Master of Arts in Music Performance from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, under the patronage of the Salvat Foundation. As a soloist, she has performed Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem and Great Mass in C, Vivaldi's Gloria, the Requiems of Fauré and Brahms, and Bach works such as the St. John Passion and the Magnificat. She has also sung in opera productions such as Dido and Aeneas, Così fan tutte, and La Cenerentola. She regularly sings with La Capella Reial de Catalunya, conducted by Jordi Savall, and with Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Phillipe Herreweghe.